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Why there’s a slender – a very slender – chance for working out a settlement at upcoming talks in New York.
The University of California intends to be carbon-neutral by 2025 by implementing existing technologies and focusing on public education. Is this a model for decarbonizing at large scale?
Profiter de ses vacances pour être au plus près de la nature en explorant des aires protégées ?
Pourquoi pas, mais en tenant compte d'éventuelles conséquences insidieuses sur la faune locale.
We often think of ecotourism as good for the environment. But it may have some worrying unintended consequences for wild animals.
New research provides a compact but powerful way for Mars rovers to communicate directly with Earth via an array of smaller antenna elements, bypassing the need for an intermediary.
The expected barrage of legal attacks on the EPA Clean Power Plan hinge on two arguments, which may ultimately go to the US Supreme Court.
Could the Abigail Fisher case, which is back before the Supreme Court, further limit the use of race in higher education admissions policies for institutions across the nation?
While the Charleston shooting is unusually horrifying, many of the themes of this tragedy are symptomatic of the nature of hate violence in our country
The Dodd-Frank Act is the Obama Administration’s cornerstone financial reform legislation, but even after several years it remains only partially implemented and subject to collective shrugs and head-scratching…
The dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank 1865-1874
There was no shortage of criticisms launched against private equity and hedge funds in 2014. From the high profile decision in September by the California Public Employees Retirement System - known to…
At first glance it appears that the Arab uprisings have strengthened Al-Qaeda and similar groups that fly the black banner. With the possible exception of Tunisia, the rest of the “Arab Spring” countries…
The most serious attempt to bring the Syrian regime and representatives of the opposition together around a negotiating table together took place at the 2014 Geneva II peace talks. The talks were based…
Editor’s note: voter turnout in this year’s midterm elections - 36.6% - was lower than in the 2010 midterms (40.9%.) According to the Pew Research Center the “party of non-voters” is more racially diverse…
Private equity is becoming much less private these days. But it is still not clear who will benefit from this new-found openness and accessibility. Not so long ago, private equity operated largely outside…
Rats are very useful for studying human eating behaviour. Both rats and humans are omnivores, and both use flavour conditioning – learning through taste and experience which foods are good to eat and which…
The killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the city’s handling of the case and subsequent protests has once again focused minds on race discrimination…
The decision by the Coalition government in Canberra to push forward with plans to reform the regulatory regime around the provision of financial advice has received strong opposition from a number of…
The news that Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old confirmed by police as a suspect in the violent rampage which left seven people dead and 13 injured in Isla Vista, southern California, had Asperger’s Disorder…
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PhD Candidate in Education, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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Ph.D. Candidate in Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles
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Acting Chair of Theater, School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Political Science and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Law and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Écologiste et analyste en télédétection, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Research Project Director, University of California, Los Angeles
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Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Scholars & Storytellers and Assistant Adjunct Professor in Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
